Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Months ago they were passing strangers , chucked together at check-in times . |
| 2 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 3 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |
| 4 | Estimates based on volumes of erupted material in fact show that the discharge from volcanoes forming island arcs and continental-margin orogens averages a very modest 1 km 3 a- 1 This rate has no doubt varied somewhat through geological time as the rate of lithospheric subduction has changed . |
| 5 | They survived anxious moments near the end of 90 minutes when Dave Connell and David Jeffrey went close for Ards but rallied again in extra time . |
| 6 | ( The move from Aigai to the more central Pella looks forward to hellenistic times : cp. p. 211 ; also p. 48 on the way Sicily too simultaneously shows ‘ archaic ’ and ‘ hellenistic ’ features . |
| 7 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 8 | True , they had done so in Roman times , but since then the state 's institutional decline meant that the terms of the competition had shifted in favour of the regions and the aristocracy . |
| 9 | Rock art evidence suggests that they had done so in pre-historic times . |
| 10 | Many animals , from sheep to starlings , breed only at certain times of year — again depending on day length . |
| 11 | ‘ He came home after closing time . |
| 12 | The ‘ Cambrian explosion ’ is largely a triploblastic radiation , but diploblasts and triploblasts may have diverged substantially before Ediacaran times . |
| 13 | The new pediplanation approach springs from the work of W. Penck , Kirk Bryan and Jessen … ( p 643 ) the sequence of major cyclic denudation upon all the continents alternating with episodes of elevation and mountain building , together with the relations of both phases , through coastal plain and shelf deposits , with major events in the ocean basins , are not disturbed haphazardly through geologic time but are in broad temporal conformity one with another . |
| 14 | Away from the panic , the waiting , the torn-up schedules , hell , it seemed almost like old times , almost normal . |
| 15 | In Holland , it is a different situation as most of the players are students and those that are n't are compensated financially for additional time off work . |
| 16 | I was actually looking forward to extra time because I was so sure that we would win . |
| 17 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |
| 18 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 19 | Yet once that dominant interest existed , the option of directing available money away from consumers to producers was no longer real if the system were to grow sufficiently in good times , survive in bad . |
| 20 | I would suggest going just before closing time and with luck you will be by yourself in front of the superb Diamond Monstrance of 1698 designed by Fischer von Erlach . |
| 21 | Things get uncovered that you ca n't see easily at other times . ’ |
| 22 | What is ‘ in the public interest ’ and what is ‘ against the public interest ’ ( there may , of course , be actions which fall into neither category ) has been interpreted differently at various times . |
| 23 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 24 | Because it forms slowly over geological time in the Cretaceous chalk , minute amounts of clay dispersed in the chalk are incorporated within the flint . |
| 25 | And I will endeavour to do so in good time for the Swiss conference . ’ |
| 26 | He was getting close to foot-stamping time . |
| 27 | It is unlikely , though , that a bridge existed here in pre-Roman times , since it is usually argued that the first Roman crossing at the famous battle of the Medway took place further upstream towards Maidstone . |
| 28 | Foxhunting — another emotive issue — was raised briefly in extra time . |
| 29 | But it must have seemed just like old times . |
| 30 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |